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Thai Raman cultural
exhibition shows in Bangkok’s National Library
By: Suthorn, Independent Mon News Agency (Bangkok),
Hundreds of Thai Mon community from different provinces in central Thailand brought their OTOP (One Tambon One Product) to show Mon cultural exhibition in “Royal Musical Library” near the National Library in Bangkok for one month. “Thai Raman Cultural Exhibition showed for three days and it will show till to the end of June 2004,” said a leader from Mon National Culture Center Nai Sunthorn Sripanngern. “The Show was presided and opened by Royal Princess Mahajakri Sirinthorn on May 31,” Nai Sunthorn. “About the relationship between Royal Thai King Generation and Mon are showed with big charts, stories of Mon and Buddhism with picture, ancient Mon scriptures, Mon traditional uniforms, musical instruments, and culture have been displayed at the library” Sunthorn added. “The exhibiton will be opened for public for one month and it opened after Royal Princess shocked a Mon bell marking the ceremony opening the library officially,” He added. The Mon antiques brought from Mon community in Thailand also displayed around the library building. Royal Princess also walked around where antiques displayed and the princess sang a Mon tune song titled “Phra Arthit Chingdaung” to the audience at the opening ceremony. “There are no Mon antiques from Mon community in Burma showed and the Thai Mon community collected the most interesting Mon traditional hand-made antiques such as Mon scripture written on elephant’s horns and others,” Nai Suthorn said.
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